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Americans are always impatient with presidential candidates who speak only ideology, and that’s good news for Barack Obama. But they’re even more impatient with incompetence. That’s bad news for the president. News of the economy, on which the presidential election will turn, gets darker and drearier. The polls measuring the president’s approval continue to fall, and even his friends in Congress are turning on him. White folks in Congress complain that it’s not nice for the president to beat up Democratic senators. “It’s not Congress’ fault,” Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa says. Sen. Mary Landrieu, who may be the last...

Friends- I hope you will join me next week in Richmond for lunch as we welcome Texas Governor Rick Perry to Virginia. You can reserve a ticket to this lunch by clicking here or going to www.RPV.org/LunchwithPerry. I have gotten to know Governor Perry over the past few years and I have seen the terrific job he has done in Texas to attract new jobs and make the tough decisions to balance the budget. Please join me next Wednesday (September 14th) for lunch to support RPV and hear directly from Governor Perry about his vision for our nation. Please reserve...

Commonwealth of Virginia Office of the Attorney General For media inquiries only, contact: Brian J. Gottstein Email: bgottstein@oag.state.va.us (best contact method) Phone: 804-786-5874 Cuccinelli expresses disappointment in Fourth Circuit’s ruling in health care case RICHMOND, VA (September 8, 2011)— Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli responded today to the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals decision in Virginia’s lawsuit against the federal government’s health care reform act. “Obviously, we are disappointed in the ruling. Our disappointment not only stems from the fact that the court ruled against us, but also that the court did not even reach the merits on the...

Dear Congressman Marchant (any congressman), I am a leader and supporter of the Irving Tea Party, the Arlington Tea Party, the Irving Republican's woman's club and serve as a delegate from the North Texas Council. I am a resident of Irving, reside in Valley Ranch and have been active in local politics. I have attended numerous Town Hall meetings, Irving ISD School Board and City Council meetings and have participated in fundraising activities for the recent Irving Mayoral race and U.S. Congressional campaigns outside of my district. I hold an undergraduate degree in Economics from the W.P. Carey school of...

September 2011 Dear Starbucks Friend and Fellow Citizen: I love our country. And I am a beneficiary of the promise of America. But today, I am very concerned that at times I do not recognize the America that I love. Like so many of you, I am deeply disappointed by the pervasive failure of leadership in Washington. And also like you, I am frustrated by our political leaders' steadfast refusal to recognize that, for every day they perpetuate partisan conflict and put ideology over country, America and Americans suffer from the combined effects of paralysis and uncertainty. Americans can't find...

The Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution declares that "the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial," and must be "informed of the nature and cause of the accusation." Based on their conduct in raiding the Gibson Guitar Company, agents from the FBI and the Fish and Wildlife Service could stand a refresher course in the law of the land. In November 2009, Fish and Wildlife agents, accompanied by a heavily armed FBI SWAT team, stormed Gibson's Nashville plant and confiscated ebony fingerboards that had been imported from Madagascar. On August 24, 2011 the Feds gave...

I wish this was unexpected, but with the out-of-control Obama Labor Board, it's exactly as we've feared and predicted. As you know, the NLRB is bulldozing its way through workers' rights and the Board's own precedents to hand Big Labor as many new special privileges as it can before the 2012 elections. -- Plotting to eliminate thousands of Boeing jobs in Right to Work South Carolina. -- Proposing a scheme to ambush workers with union certification elections. -- Forcing its way into every workplace in the country with biased notices that serve as a roadmap to coerced unionization. The Obama...

Watch for this AFTER November elections; remember this BEFORE you VOTE ... in case you think Obama'slooking out for your best interest. 1% tax on all bank transactions HR 4646 This government just cannot think of enough ways to hurt the American people!This Bill must die FORWARD THIS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW!! NEW OBAMA TAX SLIPPED IN WHILE WE WERE ASLEEP. Checked this on snopes, it's true! Check out HR 4646. (see below copied from Snopes) President Obama's finance team is recommending a one percent (1%) transaction fee (TAX). Obama's plan is to sneak it in after the November elections...

January 31, 2011 Dear Fellow New Yorker: First, please accept my family's wishes for a happy and prosperous new year. As Carl Paladino's former campaign manager, I know the campaigns of 2010 were exhausting for all of us. I wanted to drop you a note of thanks for your support for Carl's candidacy. We lost at the polls, but we might still see a policy victory: today, Governor Andrew Cuomo is talking like a fiscal conservative. His ideological shift - if it is for real - can be attributed to two factors: New York's economic reality and the chorus of...

As President George W. Bush's top speech writer, Marc Thiessen was provided unique access to the CIA program used in interrogating top Al Qaeda terrorists, including the mastermind of the 9/11 attack, Khalid Sheikh Mohammad (KSM). Now, his riveting new book, "Courting Disaster," How the CIA Kept America Safe (Regnery), has been published. Here is an excerpt from "Courting Disaster:" Just before dawn on March 1, 2003, two dozen heavily armed Pakistani tactical assault forces move in and surround a safe house in Rawalpindi. A few hours earlier they had received a text message from an informant inside the house....

Will You stand with us? On February 1, a subcommittee of the House General Laws Committee told supporters of legislation that would ban discrimination in public employment that they don't believe discrimination against LGBT state employees exist. Will you stand with us? Even though the state does not protect employees from discrimination on sexual orientation, the record shows 24 complaints in 18 years to the state Department of Human Resource Management (DHRM). They said that if discrimination based on sexual orientation existed, more people would have complained over the years. Will You stand with us? They said that, if discrimination...

Dear Digital Family of Friends: It is with great regret that I inform you that our beloved CEO Ken Olsen passed away, yesterday in Indiana, with his immediate family all around him. Ken had been in ill health for the last few months and was in Hospice care. Sad time for their family now, but Ken and Alliki had a wonderful life. It's sad to know that they both have now passed. More information will follow in the Boston Globe obituary sometime this week. I do believe there will be a Memorial Service (open to the public) to celebrate Ken's...

I got this in an e mail from my friend. Congressional Reform: The 26th amendment (granting the right to vote for 18 year-olds) took only 3 months & 8 days to be ratified! Why? Simple! The people demanded it. That was in 1971...before computers, before e-mail, before cell phones, etc. Of the 27 amendments to the Constitution, seven (7) took 1 year or less to become the law of the land...all because of public pressure. This message asks each addressee to forward this email to a minimum of twenty people on their address list; in turn ask each of those...

Act to Stop School Voucher Bill! Take Action! Write Your Delegate Now! The House will debate Delegate Massie’s HB2314, a private school voucher bill, on Monday. The final vote should be on Tuesday. Please click on “Take Action!” to send your delegate a message urging the defeat of HB2314. If you no longer wish to receive e-mail from us, please click here.

CHEERS FOR THE GREEN BAY PACKERS SAVING AMERICA MILLIONS The Green Bay Packers Are Good for America Every Red Blooded American should jump in line to support the Green Bay Packers! The Packers defeated the Chicago Bears a couple weeks ago thus earning them the opportunity to go to the Super Bowl. By doing so, they literally saved the Hard-Working, Red Blooded, Taxpaying Americans several million dollars of tax money. How you say? Simple... we were told that if the Chicago Bears had won that President Obama (and probably his family) would be attending the Super Bowl to cheer on...

For some reason, I'm on the Democrat mailing list, and I received this from Michelle Obama. I am thrilled to make sure you are the first to hear some very exciting news. Charlotte, North Carolina, will host the 46th Democratic National Convention in 2012. Charlotte is a city marked by its southern charm, warm hospitality, and an "up by the bootstraps" mentality that has propelled the city forward as one of the fastest-growing in the South. Vibrant, diverse, and full of opportunity, the Queen City is home to innovative, hardworking folks with big hearts and open minds. And of course,...

FreedomWorks Breaking News: Obamacare Repeal Vote in Senate Dear Robert, Our latest intel indicates that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell plans to offer a Repeal Obamacare amendment to the FAA reauthorization bill today! Click (link removed) to start calling your Senators now and urge them to vote YES on the McConnell Amendment to repeal Obamacare! Take Action Button Now is the time to put pressure on moderate Democrats to repeal Obama's government takeover of health care. Below is our list of moderate Democratic Senators to call. Call these Senators now because if all Republicans vote with McConnell we still need...

There are three bills pending in the Virginia Senate that are on Equality Virginia's positive legislative agenda for this year that are scheduled for a vote in the full Senate this week. Please take a minute right now to let your Virginia Senator know that you support this important legislation: SB 747 (McEachin) would codify protections against discrimination for all state employees (including college faculty), including protections against discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity. SB 1121 (Herring, McEachin) would change state law to allow local governments the freedom to establish personnel policies and procedures and to offer benefits...

Dear Friends, I received an email today from a good friend who is on the ground in Afghanistan. It broke my heart to read this and every time I go back to it, I lose my composure. I fear the average American has no idea what extraordianry sacrifices are made by our military on a daily basis. Keep them in your prayers, they need it. Exceprts from the email follow: "Some of you may have seen a news report about 6 American Soldiers killed by an Afghan policeman while on a training mission. Those were our Soldiers, and included the...

Open letter to all Military Retirees living overseas Recently in an email conversation with a Tricare Management Activity, TMA, employee she told me that what they have done to us is planned to be implemented around the world, so our plight over the last few years is about to be expanded. We are attempting to get service organizations involved in this and had a petition signature drive. I have the email if anyone wants to see it. When the Tricare Overseas Program was implemented it was done without any thought to local practices or customs and without any safeguards or...